Points of Pride - Service

Hope Nail-Bergin was living a good life — married with kids, a nice career as a stockbroker — when she got the news: she had cancer. Furthermore, she was pregnant, and the available treatments could kill either her or her baby. Struggling with her options, a hospital nurse one day asked Hope how she was feeling. “I burst into tears,” […]

Dr. Lori Baker, BA ’93, MA ’94, a Baylor alumna and assistant professor of anthropology, could have spent every day of 2014 teaching in her classroom, grading in her office, relaxing in her home, and nothing more. But she knew there was work to be done outside the university walls. Instead, Baker used her free […]

Every fall semester as Christmas draws near, large boxes begin appearing in the corners of the Baylor campus. Just as quickly, they begin to fill with toys donated by Baylor students, faculty and staff for local children. [SEE PHOTOS of the 2014 Santa’s Workshop] It’s all part of Baylor’s annual Santa’s Workshop. Earlier this month, […]

Over and over, people told Rebekkah Wallin that her dream of attending Baylor was just not likely to happen. With no mother or father to pay for school, she could easily have believed them. Short on resources but long on determination, Rebekkah never gave up on the Baylor dream — but she never dreamed just […]

You’d be hard-pressed to find many college football programs with a 26-year old player on their roster — much less a student-athlete who became an Army officer at the age of 22, then returned to college while supporting his wife and two children. And you certainly won’t be able to find another program with a player […]

More than 3 billion people worldwide are at risk from tropical diseases that spread easily and contribute to a repeated cycle of poverty in nations across the globe. Thousands of miles away from the epicenters of these diseases, in labs here at Baylor, those 3 billion people have allies in Baylor professors and their students, who right now are […]

Ending world hunger is a daunting and overwhelming task, to say the least. But like they say, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. With that in mind, the Texas Hunger Initiative (THI), housed in Baylor’s School of Social Work, does whatever it can to end hunger in Texas and beyond. Right now, THI […]

The largest class in Baylor history will move into residence halls today and tomorrow — but the students (and their families) won’t have to do it alone. Hundreds of Baylor upperclassmen, professors and staff members will be out in the heat both days, swarming on car after car as families pull up in front of the […]

The Illinois River, a tributary of the Arkansas River, runs for 145 miles through Arkansas and Oklahoma. For decades, the two states have fought over pollution in the river, with Oklahoma blaming Arkansas for polluting the river with elevated phosphorus from municipal waste water and poultry fertilizers, which leads to an increase in algae growth. […]

You know Baylor University: the oldest continually operating university in Texas and the largest Baptist university in the world, with a history dating back to 1845 and approximately 15,000 students. Almost 9,000 miles away — across the Atlantic, across the equator, on the other side of the world — sits Northrise University. Founded in 2004 with […]